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It's over but Intel's marketing department likes to redefine it to mean whatever suits the message of the day. You can read the original paper's definition and do the math on transistor counts say typical desktop processors and arrive at something well under 50% year over year growth over the last decade.

"The complexity for minimum component costs has in creased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year (see graph on next page). Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase."

  1. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/resources/moores-law.html
  2. https://download.intel.com/newsroom/2023/manufacturing/moores-law-electronics.pdf


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